NURS-61000 APN Management: Adults in Community/Primary Care

This course is the first in a series of courses addressing core nurse practitioner competencies focusing on the care of adults in the community / primary care setting. The foundation for this class is based on utilization and principles of evidence-based practice. Emphasis is placed on health promotion, health protection, disease prevention and management. This course enables the student to explore theories and models, while developing age, gender and ethnically appropriate health promotion and disease prevention programs. Critical thinking and diagnostic and interventional reasoning processes are addressed for select episodic and chronic illness in primary care.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

MSN core courses; Specialty Core

Corequisite

NURS 61100